jquery-validation vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Description

Versions of the package jquery-validation before 1.20.0 are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in the showLabel() function, which may take input from a user-controlled placeholder value. This value will populate a message via $.validator.messages in a user localizable dictionary.

Recommendation

Update the jquery-validation package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 1.20.0
• Patched version(s): 1.20.0

References

• GHSA-rrj2-ph5q-jxw2
• security.snyk.io
• CVE-2025-3573
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

jquery-validation